> For the sake of your future sanity and that of all other people who may have 
> to deal with your code, and furthermore, for the love of all that's holy, do 
> not mutate Resources in a :dirty? hook. If that's not enough of an entreaty, 
> please just do it for my sake. I can think of precious little reason to 
> mutate a resource in a :valid? hook, either.
>
> If you want to change a value on your resource before saving, just override 
> the property setter (def property_foo=(new_value); ... do something cool.... 
> super(correct_value); end). DM is not ActiveRecord, and you should rarely, if 
> ever, need to do callback-based value modification.
>
> But seriously, go ahead and hook :dirty? if you must, but think long and hard 
> about other ways to mutate your Resources before you choose to go that route.
>
> -- Emmanuel
>
> PS - This isn't directed at you, Juan, I just needed to say that loud and 
> clear for anyone else reading the list who might consider it a decent option.

Don't worry, I'm gonna call the method from the outside, i'm not going
to hook it.

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